A GAO report recommends expanding the Treasury secretary’s authority to change coinage metals and reaches a surprise conclusion on $1 coins vs. $1 notes.

Customers disappointed with the quality of the Proof 2019-W Lincoln cent the U.S. Mint shipped with orders of the 2019 Proof set can return the products.

The past week’s most-read articles focused on 2019-W cent packaging, recovery of a missing coin, and reports about counterfeit notes and coins.

Answers to collector questions, market trends for the 1895-O Barber dime, and the impact of the first grading guide are all the focus of columns in Coin World.

The inaugural episode of the Coin World Podcast features hosts Jeff Starck and Chris Bulfinch discussing news of the day and why they collect coins.

Benjamin Franklin appears twice on an AU-58 double-struck 1959-D Franklin half dollar that brought $15,600 at Stack’s Bowers’ Feb. 28 sale in Baltimore.

The MS-63 Pittman-Pogue 1800 Draped Bust silver dollar is the AMERICAI reverse variety. It sold for $60,000 Feb. 28 (beating the Pogue auction price).

18th century gold eagles from the Philadelphia Mint are expensive, but a small problem can make an otherwise unobtainable example affordable.

The U.S. Mint provided Coin World wrong information for the March 21 CFA recommendations for the 2021 through 2025 Proof American Eagle platinum coin series.

Explore the world of numismatics with the Coin World Podcast as we discuss coin collecting topics both contemporary and historical.

Coin World interview with Malcolm Varner, co-founder of Alhambra Coin Center.

Philanthropy to support health and medicine is the focus of the updated exhibit “Giving in America” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

The Commission of Fine Arts has recommended designs for a five-year Proof American Eagle platinum coin program to run from 2021 through 2025.

The U.S. Mint plans the release at noon Eastern Time March 28 of the second of three kids coin sets for 2019 targeting young hobbyists.

Modern counterfeiting risks from China, a counterfeit note from the 1840s newly rediscovered, and a look at Flying Eagle cents, all in the April 8 “Coin World.”

A recap the week’s most-read articles finds reports on the 2019-W Lincoln cents, a counterfeiter and rare grading service holders among the top stories.

A public competition for designs for the three-coin 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coin program is open, launched by the U.S. Mint March 19.

Collectors are not necessarily knocking down doors to buy the 2019 American Legion Centennial commemorative coins.

Coin World interview with Pierre Fricke, Founder of Pierre Fricke – Antebellum Coins and Currency.

Is Congress doing the right thing by considering legislation that would authorize a Presidential dollar and First Spouse gold coin for George and Barbara Bush?

The firm F + W media, a periodical and book publisher whose titles include Numismatic News, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

A Proof-only 1895 Morgan dollar that has been off the market for nearly six decades is being offered by GreatCollections in an online sale April 7.

Collectors have had questions about the safety of the packaging used for the 2019-W Lincoln cents. We have some answers.

Mint Director David J. Ryder lived up to a promise he made Dec. 13 — to actually put Apollo 11 coins into space.

The April monthly issue features exclusive features and columns, including a look at collectors who advise others to “buy the holder, not the coin.”